A new microchip ushers in cheaper digital cameras

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Technological advances in complementary metal-oxide conductors, or CMOS chips, have allowed companies such as Nintendo and Mattel to manufacture less expensive digital cameras. Researchers achieved a significant digital imaging breakthrough by adapting CMOS chips to the cameras's light-gathering sensor, or eye. This achievement has resulted in CMOS light sensors that can be mass produced inexpensively in giant factories that already manufacture ordinary PC chips. CMOS holds some other advantages over the charge-coupled device, or CCD sensor, in light sensing. Not only can the CMOS sensors handle multiple functions, they also require less battery power. Key drawbacks include CCD's sharper pictures as well as some early CMOS sensor prototypes that do not guarantee savings. Eastman Kodak, Motorola, Intel and Japan's Toshiba are among the at least six vendors racing to produce the least expensive and best CMOS chips. Motorola, Polaroid and Atmel are among the companies relying on CMOS technology to boost other consumer products.

Discrete Semiconductors, Product development, Semiconductor chips, Integrated circuits, Semiconductor device, Technology development, Design and construction, Digital cameras, Electronic cameras, Digital camera

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Chips become big black-market item

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Microprocessors make a lucrative black-market item, and theft of the chips is occurring more frequently. Chip theft has plagued chip manufacturers and distributors for over 10 years, and it is likely to get worse because of the inability of manufacturers to meet chip demand. The loss of a semiconductor resin manufacturing plant in Jul 1993 is causing even more shortages in the industry, and chip prices are rising as a result. Intel's 80486 microprocessors sell for $450 to $500, but they be found for $150 to $250 on the black market. $739,000 worth of Intel chips was stolen in early Sep 1993 by six masked men with handguns. Three attempts were made in as many weeks to steal chips in the San Francisco Bay area. Small manufacturers around the word, shut out of the market by large corporations, are buying the stolen chips, contributing to the estimated $60 billion black market.

Economic aspects, Fraud, Crime, Computer crimes, Semiconductors, Black market, Semiconductor Device, Computer Crime, Equipment Theft, Intel 80486 (Microprocessor)

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Chip maker Terayon rakes in $35 million with initial offering

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Terayon Communication Systems Inc. issued three million shares for a price of $13 per share in an initial public offering. The company, a manufacturer of high-speed Internet access chips, produced $35 million after underwriting fees from the IPO. Terayon has a market capitalization of $314.9 million. The company's chips are for Internet access by way of cable-television lines.

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Issues three million shares for a price of $13 per share in an initial public offering

United States, Semiconductor Devices, Organizational history, Company Planning/Goals, Article, Terayon Communication Systems Inc.

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